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contradictory pieces of news about abubakr al-baghdadi being ousted.
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Hamah Province: IS militants were able to kill 9 Assad militia and seize several villages in the east of Hamah Province.
وكالة مسار برس (@MasarPressNet) on Twitter
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Siege around Tiyas Airbase continue. IS were able to kill Assad's soldiers and seized tanks and equipments on the Homs-Palmyra road.
https://www.masarpress.net/قصف-بالصواريخ-على-الوعر-بحمص-وتنظيم-ال/
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Petrodollars: Fight for Kobani has a key oil aspect to it « The Barrel Blog
By Tamsin Carlisle | November 3, 2014 12:01 AM
Oil supplies coming out of Kurdistan could be affected by the outcome of a military standoff surrounding the Syrian town of Kobani. In this week’s Oilgram News column Petrodollars, Tamsin Carlisle looks at the ties between the two issues.
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The focus of the Islamic State group’s military campaign in Iraq and Syria has shifted in recent weeks from lands around Iraq’s northern oil fields to an obscure town on Syria’s border with Turkey.
Yet the battle raging in Kobani, a town of fewer than 45,000, is significant for regional oil and gas supplies, including about 290,000 b/d of crude from Iraqi Kurdistan currently flowing through the southern Turkish pipeline system linking northern Iraq with the Ceyhan oil terminal.
The exports are set to grow further, with the Kurdish Regional Government setting its sights on 400,000 b/d of crude output by the end of this year and 1 million b/d by 2019. Backing those projections are a string of major Kurdish oil discoveries, large reserves additions at Kurdistan’s established Tawke and Taq Taq oil fields, new heavy oil production and exports from the giant Shaikan field and, since 2012, the entry of major international producers and well-heeled state entities into the Kurdish upstream oil and gas sector.
Amid continued opposition from Baghdad to exports of Kurdish crude without central government approval, the KRG has pushed ahead with adding pumping facilities to expand the capacity of its crude export line to the Turkish border. The connecting Turkish export lines could also accommodate hundreds of thousands of barrels per day of revived Kirkuk output if IS were pushed out of northern Iraq and international oil companies invested in enhanced oil recovery and rehabilitation projects.
In contrast to the oil fields of northern Iraq, Kobani to many was just a point on a map before coalition forces in October launched air strikes against IS militants besieging the town. Nonetheless, the town’s capture would give IS unbroken control of a long stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border, establishing a corridor for militants to shuttle munitions and fuel from its western Syrian strongholds to its eastern front in Iraq.
Security experts speaking at a recent oil conference in Istanbul said IS remained a potent threat to Iraqi Kurdistan after nearly seizing Erbil, the regional capital, in July. They also said the jihadist group’s principal aim was to establish a state on contiguous territory in Syria and Iraq. Kobani has become pivotal to IS achieving that goal, which would greatly strengthen its hand.
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The town has become a potential flash point for regional insecurity to spread into Turkey, with the Iraq-Ceyhan pipeline system through southern Turkey providing an obvious target for sabotage attacks and oil theft.
The pipeline is a crucial part of Ankara’s strategic plan to establish Turkey as an energy transit hub, as highlighted in March, when attacks on Iraq’s northern pipeline system halted Kirkuk crude exports through Turkey. In response, Ankara took the risky step of embracing increased exports of crude from Iraqi Kurdistan through the Turkish pipeline, deeply angering Baghdad.
Nonetheless, Turkey’s president and former prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has shown deep reluctance to order Turkish troops to defend Kobani against IS. This has put the Iraq-Ceyhan pipeline directly at risk by inflaming deep-rooted Kurdish anti-government sentiment in Turkey.
The events in Turkey have intensified the pall that Iraq’s security crisis has cast over the nascent upstream oil sector of Iraqi Kurdistan, with contractors becoming increasingly nervous that their access to crude export infrastructure and international markets will be cut off.
While some have resumed full operations in Kurdistan after earlier evacuating staff in response to IS threats on the region, others, including Norway’s DNO, an established producer of Kurdish crude, have reported delays to plans to ramp up output due to local scarcity of oilfield services.
A source from an oil sector staff-recruitment agency operating in Kurdistan recently told Platts that at least one large European producer was considering leaving the region over mounting concerns about future ability to export crude.
At the Istanbul oil conference last week, Iraq Advisory Group CEO Normal Ricklefs said several international oil companies were considering declaring force majeure on their operations in Kurdistan and quitting the region.
The Turkish government, meanwhile, is on heightened alert for security threats to energy infrastructure. In August, its defense procurement agency issued a tender for an integrated security system for Turkey’s oil and gas pipelines.
Turkish media reported last week that US drone maker AeroVironment had teamed up with Turkish military electronics specialist Aselsan to bid on the contract.
Due to US pressure to keep oil out of the hands of IS, Ankara has in recent days allowed Iraqi Kurdistan’s Peshmerga force to move weapons through Turkish territory to supply the Syrian Kurdish fighters defending Kobani. Whether this turns the tide in Kobani to the Kurds favor remains to be seen. — Tamsin Carlisle in Dubai
By Tamsin Carlisle | November 3, 2014 12:01 AM
Oil supplies coming out of Kurdistan could be affected by the outcome of a military standoff surrounding the Syrian town of Kobani. In this week’s Oilgram News column Petrodollars, Tamsin Carlisle looks at the ties between the two issues.
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The focus of the Islamic State group’s military campaign in Iraq and Syria has shifted in recent weeks from lands around Iraq’s northern oil fields to an obscure town on Syria’s border with Turkey.
Yet the battle raging in Kobani, a town of fewer than 45,000, is significant for regional oil and gas supplies, including about 290,000 b/d of crude from Iraqi Kurdistan currently flowing through the southern Turkish pipeline system linking northern Iraq with the Ceyhan oil terminal.
The exports are set to grow further, with the Kurdish Regional Government setting its sights on 400,000 b/d of crude output by the end of this year and 1 million b/d by 2019. Backing those projections are a string of major Kurdish oil discoveries, large reserves additions at Kurdistan’s established Tawke and Taq Taq oil fields, new heavy oil production and exports from the giant Shaikan field and, since 2012, the entry of major international producers and well-heeled state entities into the Kurdish upstream oil and gas sector.
Amid continued opposition from Baghdad to exports of Kurdish crude without central government approval, the KRG has pushed ahead with adding pumping facilities to expand the capacity of its crude export line to the Turkish border. The connecting Turkish export lines could also accommodate hundreds of thousands of barrels per day of revived Kirkuk output if IS were pushed out of northern Iraq and international oil companies invested in enhanced oil recovery and rehabilitation projects.
In contrast to the oil fields of northern Iraq, Kobani to many was just a point on a map before coalition forces in October launched air strikes against IS militants besieging the town. Nonetheless, the town’s capture would give IS unbroken control of a long stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border, establishing a corridor for militants to shuttle munitions and fuel from its western Syrian strongholds to its eastern front in Iraq.
Security experts speaking at a recent oil conference in Istanbul said IS remained a potent threat to Iraqi Kurdistan after nearly seizing Erbil, the regional capital, in July. They also said the jihadist group’s principal aim was to establish a state on contiguous territory in Syria and Iraq. Kobani has become pivotal to IS achieving that goal, which would greatly strengthen its hand.
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The town has become a potential flash point for regional insecurity to spread into Turkey, with the Iraq-Ceyhan pipeline system through southern Turkey providing an obvious target for sabotage attacks and oil theft.
The pipeline is a crucial part of Ankara’s strategic plan to establish Turkey as an energy transit hub, as highlighted in March, when attacks on Iraq’s northern pipeline system halted Kirkuk crude exports through Turkey. In response, Ankara took the risky step of embracing increased exports of crude from Iraqi Kurdistan through the Turkish pipeline, deeply angering Baghdad.
Nonetheless, Turkey’s president and former prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has shown deep reluctance to order Turkish troops to defend Kobani against IS. This has put the Iraq-Ceyhan pipeline directly at risk by inflaming deep-rooted Kurdish anti-government sentiment in Turkey.
The events in Turkey have intensified the pall that Iraq’s security crisis has cast over the nascent upstream oil sector of Iraqi Kurdistan, with contractors becoming increasingly nervous that their access to crude export infrastructure and international markets will be cut off.
While some have resumed full operations in Kurdistan after earlier evacuating staff in response to IS threats on the region, others, including Norway’s DNO, an established producer of Kurdish crude, have reported delays to plans to ramp up output due to local scarcity of oilfield services.
A source from an oil sector staff-recruitment agency operating in Kurdistan recently told Platts that at least one large European producer was considering leaving the region over mounting concerns about future ability to export crude.
At the Istanbul oil conference last week, Iraq Advisory Group CEO Normal Ricklefs said several international oil companies were considering declaring force majeure on their operations in Kurdistan and quitting the region.
The Turkish government, meanwhile, is on heightened alert for security threats to energy infrastructure. In August, its defense procurement agency issued a tender for an integrated security system for Turkey’s oil and gas pipelines.
Turkish media reported last week that US drone maker AeroVironment had teamed up with Turkish military electronics specialist Aselsan to bid on the contract.
Due to US pressure to keep oil out of the hands of IS, Ankara has in recent days allowed Iraqi Kurdistan’s Peshmerga force to move weapons through Turkish territory to supply the Syrian Kurdish fighters defending Kobani. Whether this turns the tide in Kobani to the Kurds favor remains to be seen. — Tamsin Carlisle in Dubai
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ISIS leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi orders bodies of all Kurdish fighters to be burned - Iraqi News
(IraqiNews.com) On Sunday, the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights announced that the leader of the so-called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, issued a statement in which he ordered his followers to burn the bodies of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters who fought in the Syrian city Kobanî while condemning the Albu Nimr tribe of which 322 members were executed by ISIS militants in the district of the Hit.
The ministry said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, issued a statement in which he asked his followers to burn the bodies of Peshmerga members, desiring to take revenge for their support of Kurdish fighters in the Syrian city of Kobanî.”
(IraqiNews.com) On Sunday, the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights announced that the leader of the so-called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, issued a statement in which he ordered his followers to burn the bodies of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters who fought in the Syrian city Kobanî while condemning the Albu Nimr tribe of which 322 members were executed by ISIS militants in the district of the Hit.
The ministry said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, issued a statement in which he asked his followers to burn the bodies of Peshmerga members, desiring to take revenge for their support of Kurdish fighters in the Syrian city of Kobanî.”
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Those who do not want to stand behind the Syrian Armed Forces, please feel free to stand in front of them.
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I don't understand these Western columnist...
1-) What reluctance....there is no reluctance about Kobani, we won't be a part of it, Erdoğan stated this from day 1.
2-) Why should we defend another country's parts from another group ? Are we the police of the world ?? What's up to us.
These so-called authors living in their fantasy world.......
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actually Recep is responsible for the mess in Syria. one day family friend with Assad and the other day his enemy number-one .
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First of all, i don't support his Syria policy but there is no-way for him to to remain friends with Assad. After Assad decided to slaughter Syrian people.
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if so he must stand against all countries in ME, even Turkey itself for killing protestors. not a good excuse man. thats the interests and policy shifts behind humanitarian excuses.
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Lol, nobody is killing protestors in Turkey.... at least not deliberatly... you can't compare Turkey with Syria in this matter.
Dictator killed many children, dropped barrel bombs over cities..etc.... I would post many pics but it's against forum rules.
